Edgar Dearing
Born: 1893-05-03 in Ceres, California, USA
Died: 1974-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.
Filmography
2024
- Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- Thriller as The Police Sergeant
- The Tall Man
- Pollyanna as Mr. Gorman
1959
- The Twilight Zone as First Resurrected Man
- No Name on the Bullet as Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
1958
1957
- Trackdown as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1956
- State Trooper
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie
1954
- Public Defender
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Gorman
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
1953
- I'm the Law
- It Came from Outer Space as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- Vice Squad as Fitz (uncredited)
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Police Lt. Ryan
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Cavalcade of America as Fitz
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
- Carson City as Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
- Glory Alley as Man at Gym (uncredited)
- Ruby Gentry
1951
- Boston Blackie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Silver Canyon as Colonel Middler
- Pecos River as Henry Mahoney
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop Willard
- As You Were as Sgt. Monahan
1950
- Union Station as Detective (uncredited)
- Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones
- Hunt the Man Down as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Iroquois Trail as Colonial Major (uncredited)
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Randolph Dike
1949
- Sorrowful Jones as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
- The Threat as Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Reiber
1948
- My Girl Tisa as Jailer (uncredited)
- Man or Mouse as Hercules Jones
- Out of the Storm as Ed Purcell
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Policeman
- Magic Town as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
- Christmas Eve as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Where There's Life as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
- The Virginian
- Road to Utopia as Official Policeman (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
- Nocturne as Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as Policeman (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Al - First Studio Cop
- Her Lucky Night as Casey
- Johnny Angel as Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
- Midnight Manhunt as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
- Don't Fence Me In as Chief of Police
- Swing Out, Sister as Motorcycle Cop
1944
- And the Angels Sing as Man (uncredited)
- In Society as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- Strange Affair as Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
- Make Your Own Bed as Sergeant
- Seven Doors to Death as Claude Burns
1943
- Princess O'Rourke as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
- Fired Wife as Sullivan
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
1942
- My Favorite Spy as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
- My Favorite Blonde as Joe - Policeman
- The Affairs of Martha as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Between Us Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
- Apache Trail as Marshal (uncredited)
- Miss Annie Rooney as Policeman
- A Gentleman After Dark as Joe
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Irondome (uncredited)
- Remember the Day as Detective
- Pot o' Gold as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
- Caught in the Draft as Recruiting Sergeant
- Louisiana Purchase as House Detective (uncredited)
- Niagara Falls as State Trooper
- Maisie Was a Lady as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Policeman (uncredited)
1940
- Go West as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne All American as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Policeman (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Policeman
- No Time for Comedy as Sweeny (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Wildcat Bus as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
- When the Daltons Rode as Sheriff
- Lucky Partners as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- American Spoken Here as Mike Fink (uncredited)
- Sailor's Lady as Chief Master-of-Arms
- And One Was Beautiful as Higgins
- Florian as Cop
- Primrose Path as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Cross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Wyoming as Capt. Evans
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Police Officer
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Policeman
- Little Orvie as Policeman
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
- A Child is Born as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
- Blondie Meets the Boss as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
- Thunder Afloat as Petty Officer (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld as Police Detective (uncredited)
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Honolulu as Jailer
- Full Confession as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Second Bartender (uncredited)
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jim Simmons
1938
- Blondie as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
- You Can't Take It with You as Bill (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Policeman
- Spring Madness as Policeman
- Maid's Night Out as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Hard to Get as Eddie (uncredited)
- Listen, Darling as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- The Chaser as Policeman at End
- Love Is a Headache as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
- Border G-Man as Smoky Joslin
1937
- The Awful Truth as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- They Gave Him a Gun as Sgt. Meadowlark
- You Only Live Once as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Love Is News as Motorcycle Officer
- Midnight Taxi as Officer Murray
- Big City as Tom Reilley
- Dangerous Number as Policeman
- It Happened in Hollywood as Joe Stevens
- Married Before Breakfast as Police Sergeant
1936
- After the Thin Man as Bill (uncredited)
- Swing Time as (uncredited)
- All Business as House Detective
- Hollywood Boulevard as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- That Girl from Paris as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
- Down the Ribber
- Border Flight as Smugglers' Pilot
- Back to Nature as Motorcycle Officer
- Bunker Bean as Policeman (uncredited)
1935
- If You Could Only Cook as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Kelly
- Rendezvous as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
- Stolen Harmony as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Precint 5 Policeman
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Railroad Man
- A Quiet Fourth
- The Nitwits as Police Officer Barney Riley
- Helldorado as Motorcycle Cop
1934
- Cleopatra as Convict
- Ocean Swells as Captain
- Kentucky Kernels as Policeman (uncredited)
- Thirty Day Princess as Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
1933
- The Midnight Patrol as Policeman (uncredited)
- Eskimo as Constable Balk (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Train Official (uncredited)
- The Lost Squadron as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
1931
- The Star Witness as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
- The Painted Desert as Buck's Partner
- Consolation Marriage as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
- Next Door Neighbors as Cop
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Armstrong
- Free and Easy as Officer
- Estrellados as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Two Plus Fours as Rent Collector
- Traffic Tangle as Motor Cop
- A Man from Wyoming as Sergeant
- Live and Learn as Mr. Smith
- Rich Uncles
1929
- The Mighty as Doughboy
- Flight as Football Coach
- The Locked Door as Cop
- A Pair of Tights as Policeman (uncredited)
- Clunked on the Corner as Cop
- The Jazz Age as Motor Cop
1928
- Lonesome as Cop (uncredited)
- Limousine Love as Motorcycle cop
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Henchman
- Came the Dawn as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
- Fair and Muddy as Motorcycle Cop
1927
- Call of the Cuckoo as Guest
- Should Men Walk Home?
- Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor
1926
- On the Front Page as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)